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Private Aid Agencies in the 21st Century: An Introduction

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Private Development Aid in Europe

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The 1980s have been dubbed the ‘golden age’ of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) or the period when NGOs ‘started to lose the “security of obscurity” and enter the realm of recognition and embrace by the official aid system’ (Fowler, 2011, p. 45). Positioning themselves as ‘alternative’ to the work of their bilateral and multilateral peers, they have become accepted as central actors in development, as donors, as a channel to transfer aid funds, and/or as recipients of the same. Moreover, they managed to become part of international negotiations either as organizations with a consultative status or as participants in social movements trying to influence such negotiations from the outside. As part of civil society, they are thus considered to be ‘independent development actors in their own right’ within present-day aid architecture (OECD, 2011a).

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  1. Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen, Radboud University, The Netherlands

    Paul Hoebink (Extraordinary Professor) & Lau Schulpen (Senior Lecturer) (Extraordinary Professor) &  (Senior Lecturer)

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Schulpen, L., Hoebink, P. (2014). Private Aid Agencies in the 21st Century: An Introduction. In: Hoebink, P., Schulpen, L. (eds) Private Development Aid in Europe. EADI Global Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009777_1

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